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Packers' B.J. Raji Says He Did Test Positive -- In College

B.J. Raji, the Green Bay Packers' first-round draft pick and No. 9 pick overall, confirmed yesterday that he did indeed test positive for marijuana while a student at Boston College -- but not, as SI.com and others reported some weeks ago, at the NFL scouting combine. From the Green Bay Press-Gazette:The distinction...

Bengals Defend Troubled Draft Pick

I doubt anyone was truly surprised on Sunday when the Cincinnati Bengals announced their sixth-round pick.Yes, Abilene Christian running back Bernard Scott is a talented football player. However, it's worth noting that the Bengals seem to have once again ignored the rap sheet of a player before using a draft pick on him....

Winners and Losers From the NFL Draft

NEW YORK -- The whole thing, start to finish, from pick No. 1 to pick No. 256 (minus the 10-hour break overnight Saturday), took 15 hours and 15 minutes. The NFL Draft is a complex, sprawling monster of an event that defies instant synthesis even as itdemands it.But demand it does, and so here we are, in the hours after...

Jets Introduce Smooth, Savvy Sanchez

NEW YORK -- Mark Sanchez wasn't at USC's spring practice Saturday, but when Trojans coach Pete Carroll called that night to congratulate Sanchez on being the No. 5 pick in the NFL draft, he gleefully told his former quarterback the story of what went down."He said they had a live feed of the draft on the Megatron video...

Patriots Trade Ellis Hobbs to Eagles for Pair of Picks

NEW YORK -- The New England Patriots drafted UConn's Darius Butler thinking he could replace cornerback Ellis Hobbs at cornerback and in the kick-return game. Today, they accelerated that process, trading Hobbs to the Philadelphia Eagles for a pair of fifth-round picks. The wheeling-dealing Pats immediately flipped both...

NflDraft News From the Web

02/22/12 NFL Draft 2012: New York Giants First Round Candidate:... Source: Bleacher Report We have a little over two months until the 2012 NFL Draft.
02/22/12 Compare Your 40 Time With Rich Eisen, NFL Draft... Source: WebProBlog The NFL Scouting Combine begins today (2/22) as teams get ready for the meat market-like approach to evaluating future NFL prospects, in preparation for the upcoming NFL Draft.
02/22/12 NFL Combine tests at Lucas Oil Stadium: NFL draft... Source: New Jersey Newsroom More than 300 of the top college prospects in the country will participate at the NFL Combine in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis during the next week.
02/21/12 NFL Draft 2012: Highlighting the 5 Biggest Medical... Source: Bleacher Report Before the NFL Combine turned into a full three-ringed circus of stopwatches, cameras, vertex measurements, accelerometers, cones and simulcasts, the primary reason the NFL Scouting Combine came into being was in order to get all draft prospects in one place for physical examinations and medical checks.
02/20/12 Trent Richardson preparing for NFL Draft in Phoenix... Source: Alabama Football on AL.com Alabama running back Trent Richardson is expected to be the first running back taken in the upcoming NFL Draft but how high he'll be picked, and thus how much money he'll make, will depend in part on his performance at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis next week.